rosa curtin signs a bill which includes a ban on americans adopting russian children that education has split russian public opinion but the authorities say it's aimed at the adoption system and the u.s. . last a shopping spree to us gun stores a flooded by customers two weeks after the tragic school shooting in connecticut as barack obama's threat to a bonfire on the spot fires plus. the coffee we just ended the coffee right. about food to nasty weather we'll look at why many britons including more millionaires they never want to leave the u.k. in the near future.

this is coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program presentation has signed off a bill aimed at a u.s. citizens accusing abusing the human rights of russians it includes a ban on americans adopting russian children the restrictions came about after washington and travel and financial sanctions against russian officials it alleges are involved in rights violations. as a storage for. oh earlier the president said he saw no reason why the bill shouldn't be passed and signed it on the next day after the final draft got into his office now starting from the first of january american citizens suspected off while asians on the rights of the russian citizens will be banned from entering russia the bill also introduces financial sanctions and restrictions on n.g.o.s and

non commercial organizations with foreign sponsors and also the article which has been more stalked about the ban for all americans to adopt russian children for the past few weeks russian society and even the political elite have been split over the issue and there have been many cases of abuse of russian children and sometimes even deaths after they're brought to the united states and russian president has been saying that this bill is not aimed against people or children but it's aimed against the american system due to a lack of a proper legal reaction from american authorities to these cases including the a lack of heavy jail sentences and other problem is that russian officials are often not even able to monitor what happens to russian children after they're brought to the u.s. one of the reasons behind so much debate around the ban is also that many people are concerned with the state of orphanages in russia and along with signing this bill the president also believes we aimed at improving the lives of orphans in the

country lawmakers from the beginning have been saying that this is a response to the magnitsky act bans passed recently by american lawmakers city game was a russian war of words for foreign investment funds he was suspected of money laundering but died in prison before a court could make a decision on his case is seen by many in the west especially united states as a victim of various human rights violations and the magnitsky act basically gives the green light for sanctioning a russian official suspected in the us of being connected with human rights violations in moscow by me. officials it's seen as another russian law because it's really not clear on what grounds this blacklist of means is that is being put together and also we know that some of the names are going to be classified all together. and as the investigation continues into the death of sergei magnitsky in prison and moscow court has acquitted

a jail doctor of negligence leading to loss of life russia's presidential council on human rights concluded magnitsky had been severely beaten and denied medical treatment while he was held in prison but the judge said she found no evidence that the doctors actions caused the death of me if his family promised to appeal the ruling. critics of the new adoption by unsafe homes of russian orphans chances of a better future but a former director of the american adoption congress told us that tracking how russian children are being treated in the u.s. is all but impossible a lot of the cases have gotten very very light sentences for the caretakers whether for store or adoptive of russian children here in the united states but we certainly have no idea how many children are enduring abuses surviving abuses of all kinds the children that died at the hands of their adoptive parents were

tortured in some horrendous ways they were sexually abused they were burnt they were starved they would kill ever any conceivable kind of torture one human being played inflict on another was done to these children so these were the parents that were caught and prosecuted nineteen how many more are there is there's absolutely no way of knowing the united states has no system of follow up on adoptions once an adoption is finalized the child is considered as if born to that family. gun sales have skyrocketed in the u. us stance after barack obama urged a ban on some firearms in the wake of this sunday hook school massacre as all she's going after she kind explains that has backfired. about two weeks ago actually on this particular wall here. yours four rows down four rows across. with

everything going on in politics right now with. everyone is flooding and. purchase. customers all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the roof been going for a thousand and fifty eight hundred eight hundred dollars twenty five hundred three thousand dollars even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying spree i've ever seen so many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to the ministrations

ban talk as the obama gun stimulus that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun salesman in america manufacturers of semi-automatic rifles were poured that their market has grown thirty percent over the last four years states like north carolina iowa you have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the tragedy in newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days. although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons his words have certainly provoked action just not the type you may have wanted or someone they say was against were. doing a great job for us. maybe they should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers high book gone

apocalypse scenario so the band they don't really know which. to start. start with. but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening anytime soon don't control measures adopted in the past ultimately clashed with this. and were subsequently scrapped. in trying to leverage me and i'm going to check out. and one group in utah has come up with their own unique way to prevent more shootings by introducing even more guns to schools but giving them to teachers so the gun rights advocates have decided to launch a shooting lessons for teachers in case of an emergency so let us know what you're saying by logging on to our home and giving us your opinion on the inspection. no.

iran is holding a fresh round of naval drills in the strait of hormuz one of the world's busiest oil and gas shipping routes the six day war games come as they were systematically builds up pressure on iran over its nuclear program and amid speculations of a military confrontation professor side mohammad marandi from the university of tehran explained why the rains don't think and talk is possible any time soon. in the sense that western countries are brutal and civilized enough to carry out an attack i think that that's clear to the iranians the fact that western countries are imposing sanctions and an embargo on it on iran they're trying to prevent iran from even importing and exporting medicine and food stuffs by blocking the central

bank and there are shortages of some medicines right now in iran and people have died so the fact that the western countries are willing to kill ordinary people and to make people suffer i think makes it clear that the idea of carrying out an attack on iran is something that they would time template if they could but i think on the other hand the iranians believe that western countries are much weaker today than they ever were before the defeat in iraq and afghanistan the setbacks in. that israel had in lebanon and gaza make as well as the economic crisis in europe and north america make it highly unlikely but the iranians have prepared themselves and i think that itself has been it took deterrence to war so the i think in general the iranians feel that a military assault on iran aggression would be highly unlikely it will shing r.c.n. still ahead for you this hour as he would dive deeper into politics with take a look at the big key developments in the table war over the last year perhaps in

our series called later this hour. on pleading to a rise in violence would get a tax cut at the piano or triggered the growing sectarian conflict. that later but now in egypt the country's main opposition leaders aren't investigation for allegedly inciting their supporters to overthrow president mohamed morsi approached was announced shortly after the islamist drafted new constitution in training shari'a law was officially approved in a referendum and right hand journalist neil clark explained why he thinks most is going after the opposition now. thank you wants to sort of deflect attention from the economy because the underlying problem plate the biggest we're facing is the economic crisis one of four egyptians are without jobs the economic crisis one of four he just ended subsidies on fuel which means that the prices of gas and electricity are going to rocket and so this is a kind of

a sort of smokescreen for him and he was very keen to get the opposition tied up in these the legal challenges to it to sort of stop them from focusing on opposing him on the issues where he's he's very weak and i think also he be worried that you know a sizable minority thirty six over thirty six percent of people voted against the constitution and the fact seems to be that that his support is on the way. and i think that obviously you know i think we can see more protests in the new year and all the back with more news for you after a short break. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe you feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist scar finding

a small. the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection said to the t.s.a. agents can put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist were to kill security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion.

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this is the welcome back a growing number wealthy britons plan to wave goodbye to the u.k. over the next three years and move their lives and money elsewhere more than a fifth of the country's millionaires are considering emigrating according to a recent survey by some punk on his point zero point zero explains now what exactly is making the rich part of the luxury luggage. blamed dismal weather that's reportedly the overwhelming reason for why one in five british million as a considering upping sticks and leaving the country now those reasons are followed closely by the high rate of crime in the u.k. and antisocial behavior and then another reason why they might want to leave is the high cost of living here in the u.k. and only in fourth place to my why they might might want to leave is the high rate of personal taxation now where are they growing well top of the list of destinations is france it's nearby and it's warmer weather and same goes for spain

which is the other place where they're all thinking of flocking to followed by the usa now we didn't manage to track down any millionaires but we hit the streets of london to talk to the ordinary londoners to ask whether they were considering opting sticks and leaving as well and it looks like most of them agree with the millionaires so let's take a listen to what they told us you consider leaving the u.k. . one reason to climb a. second the dark. would you consider leaving the u.k. and leaving somewhere else i'm going to do really what is the reason my wife. my children but also the expense here looks like the middle class professionals are the ones who are actually packing their bags and leaving a recent report by the home office said that more and more middle class we professionals are actually packing their bags and opting to continue their careers elsewhere and for them the main reason is the high rate of personal taxation so

it's the millionaires are the ones that don't like the rain then is the middle class professionals the senior managers the academics the scientists that are actually continuing their careers abroad and a lot of business leaders are saying that if the high rate of personal taxation isn't cut it's going to lead to a brain drain for the u.k. in the future so something that's very worrying for politicians to consider here. and of course there's much more news to catch up with online including clamping down on a private christmas party in saudi arabia local police arrest all celebrating a holiday that isn't aligned with the country's strict islamic rules. and it's hard to imagine these devastating twisters could be useful for much but to one business things it can turn them into great energy and green energy it would say find out more on our website.

russia's urging the syrian government to statements that is ready to talk to opponents speaking to journalists the foreign minister sergei lavrov outlined to the russian view on how the conflict should be resolved. we achieving the. we actively encourage the syrian leadership to make as concrete as possible is declared readiness for dialog with the opposition also asking when will the international community make up their minds that bashar assad should go with respect to the international community is the syrian people who should make that decision or the international community should not be instigating one of the sites to continue bloodshed will set any preconditions they should instead encourage all the fighting to follow the geneva statements which set conditions for the syrians

themselves getting all political ethnic and religious groups have got to agree on which kind of state they want to live in. to a level of also criticised for luck tens of serious key opposition groups by the west to make any concessions in the civil standoff but his trial is that russia is ready to hold talks with the group they push for a diplomatic solution to the conflict the syrian crisis has dragged on for nearly two gears now with reports of fresh bloodshed on an almost daily basis on his correspondence and contrasts close as they could to their real stories of violence tearing the country apart and that's where focusing on today in our series of the events that shaped. it became fairly apparent after

a massive regional arab spring and in the wake of that the next contact of a pro-democracy movement and a revolution or civil war was out of what was happening in syria and politicians there and the media focusing just. cracking down on people you think but what about the other side. of the politics and diplomacy that are simply too important to ignore. i remember i was a trade. session of the syrian football team and the coach was very angry with how his players were practicing he was shouting he was swearing from time to time and then i moved my head like it's just like this and i saw two helicopters flying at very low altitude and firing we were. close to us there was a group for rich syrians playing cards from smoke and living life as usual and just . as me and my colleagues were leaving the local t.v. station there was an almost lost a few blocks away most likely terror attack most likely people have been killed and

what struck you was the coexistence of those two. real it's the death of the most interesting interaction for me with assad happened before and after the interview obviously and that's often the case. i asked him if he's afraid. he said no. he said no i'm not afraid that's a moment when the you believe the person or not and the only reason you know if he's right or wrong is international i think series becoming the next iraq it's a country that is totally disempowered from within. and don't surprise or shock anybody and like in the case of iraq all this harm was done to syria with the substantial help of the outsiders on the guise of democratic and time.

so thousands of sunni muslims in iraq have joined protests against the shia led government the rallies are the largest public anger in a week of demonstrations that flared up after the arrest of at city finance ministers bodyguards sunni's who controlled iraq until the fall of saddam hussein ten years ago accuse the shia authorities of refusing to share power and they sectarian strife is just part of a wider conflict which has recently seen some of its worst violence since the iraq war and. iraqi american blogger and political analyst told me that the foreign invasion has helped to create instability unfortunately is another example of. u.s. interventions decades after the us invaded the country and destroyed it and promised everyone on the wall down in iraq that it will build functioning democracy but everyone will be happy living in peace and prosperity became one of the water

places to live on earth the country is completely destroyed the society has been destroyed the infrastructure has been this destroyed five million people have been displaced and a million people were killed. there is till this day in two thousand and twelve we still have. giant political system iraqis view. a very dysfunctional one so unfortunately it's another example of the failure of installing a government system by us or need to invade. afghanistan official have accused nato links companies of tax evasion and the speech president karzai hinted to the country is being torn by corruption from the outside but antiwar activists brian baca believes there's a flip side to karzai as dilemma. karzai is caught between a rock and a hard place he owes his very survival i mean in

a literal sense to the occupying forces and yet at the same time he realizes that the afghan people deeply resent the foreign occupiers who have been there for more than a decade and so in order to have any credibility especially post two thousand and fourteen the karzai government and his followers must show that at least some degree of nationalist credentials in other words some independence from the occupiers to whom they owe their survival so he's on the horns of a dilemma he cannot really escape i think. against the foreign n.g.o.s for not paying their taxes which is probably true is his attempt to solve his own or save his own reputation for those who deeply resent the foreign occupation the fact of the matter is the occupation of afghanistan like almost all foreign occupation is riddled with corruption by the occupiers and by the elites whether we sippin of their assistance and does the karzai government really represent the afghan people does it represent working families does it represent the poor farmers i would say

absolutely not there's no indication of that whatsoever to the extent that the karzai government is demanding from foreign forces or independent domestic forces any sort of revenue you can you can believe you can gas for sure i would say that much of that money will be treated as loot something that will be the private premise for those who are in power the elite themselves. and dmitri is here next with business good evening to you very nice to have you in the studio so it's been be the final trading day here in russia before a very long break happy holiday the head of that through traders are going out of hibernation or partying until the eighth of january so basically it's different from the rest of the world so mostly they sell out to get some cash and you know prepare for the parties but it's also a great opportunity for us to to wrap up the year and talk about the gainers and the losers of two thousand and twelve and i'm going to do that in three minutes

after a short break absolutely thank you. if you're passing through russia's to be a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land and enterprising locals sold the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters going on he has been hunting for more than thirty years and works for a company providing expeditions for tourists this season ducks are on the menu of. things a successful duck hunting needs. but above all silence which means that i need to be very quiet i'm not going to frighten the birds or put off and she.

but when you've been in the business is known as he has the birds don't stand much chance. there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive but environmentalists are fighting back the heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia. it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild

for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. and this is where i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called fire and a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as foster parents for the next generation will come here using the old awards as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's an important part of the world's development and a major factor in the success of a project which has seen more than twenty generations of cubs grow up here it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolfs reputation in russia.